HB 489 BRIDGE NAMING (Okey)—To designate the Lake Milton Bridge, which is located in Mahoning County and is part of Interstate Route 76, as the “Peter J. Delucia Memorial Bridge.”

HB 490 INFRASTRUCTURE PROTECTION CENTER (Mallory)—To create the Infrastructure Protection Center within the Division of Homeland Security of the Department of Public Safety.

HB 491 CARBON MONOXIDE DETECTORS (Chandler)—To require fire extinguishers and carbon monoxide detectors in residential buildings and residential units, to direct the Board of Building Standards to adopt rules that establish product and installation standards for fire extinguishers and carbon monoxide detectors, to require transferors of residential real property to disclose whether fire extinguishers and carbon monoxide detectors are installed in their property, and to prohibit a transferor of residential real property from entering into a transfer agreement unless fire extinguishers and carbon monoxide detectors are installed as the bill requires.

SENATE

INTRODUCED

SB 295 RENTAL AGREEMENTS/FORECLOSURE (Miller, D.)—To provide that a rental agreement does not terminate upon the foreclosure of the landlord's mortgage.

SB 296 ATTORNEY'S FEES (Miller, D.)—To require that a court award attorney fees to a successful plaintiff in an action against a person for violating the unwanted facsimile advertisement statute.

SB 298 INSURANCE COVERAGE (Miller, D.)—To prohibit discrimination in health care policies, contracts, and agreements in the coverage provided for the diagnosis and treatment of mental illnesses and substance abuse or addiction conditions.

SB 299 EARLY VOTING (Miller, D.)—To change the name of absent voter's ballots to early voting ballots.

INTRODUCED AND REFERRED

SCR 23 VACANT HOUSING (Miller, D.)—To urge the United States House of Representatives to pass H.R. 3498, cited as the Neighborhood Reclamation and Revitalization Program Act of 2007, to authorize the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to make grants to assist municipalities with a vacant housing problem and additionally to urge that the appropriations be increased to $500,000,000.

Information from: Gongwer News Service, http://www.gongwer-oh.com

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